Buying unnecessary inventory costs your business money. Conversely, inadequate inventory can lose sales. Accountants and analysts have developed a number of metrics for judging how efficiently your ...

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Inventory control risks affect all companies regardless of how much inventory the company carries. A small business typically has a large amount of its cash tied up in inventory. With such a large ...